Compositionally, this is beautiful. I do agree with Charlie in that making it more clear the purpose of your figure would be a good idea. Also, I wasn't sure where your figure ended and the cloth on the table began because of your dress blending in to the table. So potentially either define that more or really blending yourself into the table would be interesting.
I love the B/W film grain application that you added to this. The set-up seems we’ll thought out with the tarot cards and incense placed in a nice and deliberate composition. One aspect I would recommend is to rethink the placement of your figure. Is there any way you could make yourself more actively integrated into the photograph? For example, it’s be neat if you were sitting in the same meditation pose but you were holding the incense stick also! Great job overall here!
I think it's a nice effect, but the end result feels really flat to me. There's not a whole lot of range between the brightest and darkest values and the focus seems pretty consistent throughout the picture.
The final filter effect (What I assume is happening) isn't doing any favors either, as it is a uniformly applied texture across everything. Which further adds to the illusion of the flatness.
The smoke effect is also really sharp compared to the rest of the piece and feels post processed even if it was originally captured. I would probably blur it. A low applied gausian, and a motion blur as it is wafting upward.
The figure is well composited and blended well into the frame however. So these aren't reccomendations to make that effect more believable, per say, that aspect is already pretty great, ... more the overall impact and caliber of the whole piece.
I think that you blended yourself really well! This picture looks really meditative. The composition with the smoke as well as taking away the color and sepia toning the picture really pushes this idea. The concept isn't terribly clear so if you tweaked anything, I think that it would be making your concept a little clearer, but overall this is very well done.
Compositionally, this is beautiful. I do agree with Charlie in that making it more clear the purpose of your figure would be a good idea. Also, I wasn't sure where your figure ended and the cloth on the table began because of your dress blending in to the table. So potentially either define that more or really blending yourself into the table would be interesting.
ReplyDeleteI love the B/W film grain application that you added to this. The set-up seems we’ll thought out with the tarot cards and incense placed in a nice and deliberate composition. One aspect I would recommend is to rethink the placement of your figure. Is there any way you could make yourself more actively integrated into the photograph? For example, it’s be neat if you were sitting in the same meditation pose but you were holding the incense stick also! Great job overall here!
ReplyDeleteI think it's a nice effect, but the end result feels really flat to me. There's not a whole lot of range between the brightest and darkest values and the focus seems pretty consistent throughout the picture.
ReplyDeleteThe final filter effect (What I assume is happening) isn't doing any favors either, as it is a uniformly applied texture across everything. Which further adds to the illusion of the flatness.
The smoke effect is also really sharp compared to the rest of the piece and feels post processed even if it was originally captured. I would probably blur it. A low applied gausian, and a motion blur as it is wafting upward.
The figure is well composited and blended well into the frame however. So these aren't reccomendations to make that effect more believable, per say, that aspect is already pretty great, ... more the overall impact and caliber of the whole piece.
I think that you blended yourself really well! This picture looks really meditative. The composition with the smoke as well as taking away the color and sepia toning the picture really pushes this idea. The concept isn't terribly clear so if you tweaked anything, I think that it would be making your concept a little clearer, but overall this is very well done.
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